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If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Not wanting to be around people isn't paranoia, it's perfectly normal.

There's a probably about the same number of people who want to be alone most of the time as those who can't be alone for long -- and an equal split for each grade betwixt one and t'other.

Thinking you're a nutter, when all you really are is just another human, is the only craziness going on, here (there may be an element of narcissism involved, but that ain't insanity, either; it's a survival thing).

Well no. What you're talking about and what I'm talking about are two different things. I'm referring to the paranoia - the feeling that those around me are out to do me harm or otherwise have ill intent, and are taking special interest in me.

I'm diagnosed schizoaffective, Mark. Despite your comment, I am not making up my mental health condition, and suggesting I am is uncalled for.

I am not making up my mental health condition, and suggesting I am is uncalled for.

Trying to prove you're paranoid? I did nothing of the kind.

Telling someone that they're worrying about nothing is not an accusation of anything.

Besides, with any "mental illness", you need to go at least as far as getting a third or fourth opinion. Psychology is not a science, and if a shrink tells patients that they have a psychosis, chances are that they will develop it.

When we moved to Texas, we got a house out in an unincorporated area, where you could stand on the roof and see Bell, Coryell, and Lampasas counties. VERY quiet neighborhood, each house on at least two acres, etc etc etc. I loved it.

My wife started to hate it within a year. Too far away from people, boring, etc etc etc. So we moved to Europe.

Advance the clock 10 years, and now my wife says "I understand why you don't want to live too near anyone else. I hate people. They're all idiots. We need to build a house away from the city, get away from all these #$#@$! people."